Bishops(i)
1 But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell
2 For wherto might the strength of their handes haue serued me? for the time was but lost among them
3 For very miserie and hunger they fled into the wildernesse, a darke place, horrible and waste
4 Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate
5 And when they were dryuen foorth, men cryed after them as it had ben afafter a thiefe
6 Their dwelling was in the cleftes of brookes, yea in the caues and dennes of the earth
7 Among the busshes went they about crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together
8 They were the children of fooles and vyllaynes, which are more vile then the earth
9 Now am I their song, & am become their yesting stocke
10 They abhorre me and flee farre from me, and stayne my face with spittle
11 Because God hath loosed my corde and humbled me, they haue loosed the bridle before me
12 Upon my right hande ryse the young men against me, they haue hurt my feete, treading vpon me as vpon the wayes of their destruction